Artist study · running live

Matt DesLauriers, drawn by his own code.

Every piece below is not a screenshot. It is the original program — the same one that minted the token — running in your browser, right now, decoding a single hash into a single composition.

Meridian's stratified horizons, the wandering coastlines of Subscapes, FOLIO's concrete-poetry marks: three of the defining works of on-chain generative art, plus the writing, talks and open-source tools that made them possible.

Matt DesLauriers — generative artist & creative coder · mattdesl.com · github · @mattdesl

Meridian #986 — live render · Art Blocks, 2021
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Beyond the flagships

the wider practice

The on-chain work above is only part of it. DesLauriers moves fluidly between chains, print and film — and it started on Tezos.

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Words & talks

the thinking behind the work

DesLauriers writes and speaks about his process with unusual clarity — the tools, the failures, the aesthetics of algorithms. A few starting points.

The infrastructure under a generation of generative art. canvas-sketch alone is how a huge share of the field learned to make, export and print work.